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    Rocket Fuel

    I was in the freezer section of my local Wegman's and spied the frozen concentrated juices. On a whim, I bought two cans of Welch's Apple/Grape/Cherry (it was on sale for $1.50 each). Threw it in a 1 gallon water bottle with 1.25 lb light brown sugar and Cote De Blancs. After 1 month, it looked...
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    Unexpectedly fast fermentation

    I made a batch of hard cider from fresh pressed juice and Safale S-04 (no added sugar). From a few other threads it said let it sit 7-10 days to get down to 1.010 then cold crash and bottle or let it ferment completely out and wait months to mellow. Today is day 7 and I just pulled a sample...
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    Cucumber Wine

    I planted several cucumber plants at the beginning of summer and they have....overgrown. I now have 11 1/4 lbs of cucumbers sitting on my counter. I can't eat them fast enough so I was considering making a cucumber wine. The only recipe I found online seems a bit sketchy, but it's a good start...
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    Fermentation after k-meta/sorbate

    I'm making a 5 gallon batch of EdWort's Apfelwein (my first homebrew) and I wanted to try an experiment so I siphoned off a gallon into a PETE water bottle I bought. Before siphoning, I sterilized everything, added a 1/2 tsp of potassium sorbate and a crushed campden tablet as well as a can...
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    Apfelwein question

    I started a batch of Ed's Apfelwein last week using 2 packs of EC-1118 and 3 tsp yeast nutrients and the SG has already stabilized one week later. Is the rest of the 4 week wait just clearing or is there some kind of conditioning going on? Basically, if I add sparkolloid now, bottle a couple...
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    First time brewing

    I made my first batch of Ed's Apfelwein on Wednesday and it's been happily bubbling away. I took my first reading today (day 4) using my DIY Vacuum Sample Getter Device (a post for another time) and the SG has dropped from 1.062 to 1.020. I read an article on the HBT blog on secondaries that...
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    First Mead

    I started a hard cider the other day and, while waiting for that to finish, got curious and decided to try a mead. I got the Joe's Quick Blueberry Mead recipe and modified it to fit the two gallon water cooler jug I got at a garage sale for $1 (used once, given a nice long C-Brite bath). I...
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    Siphon

    I'm just starting my first batch of hard cider today. I decided to practice siphoning before I try the real deal and found out I don't suck, or at least not well enough. I could not get the siphon to start, no matter what I tried. I also didn't want to be sucking up whatever I was siphoning...
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